Sealed account of agricultural labor, 2039 BCE
At Umma the management of state-owned land was contracted to teams of twenty or so agricultural laborers headed by an overseer. Running accounts were kept which recorded work owed and work performed year by year (Englund 1991). This tablet records weeding activities in three well known fields in the Umma district.
75 x 50 x 25 mm
FSU_Tablet_23
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Cuneiform Tablets, 2350 - 1788 BCE
Umma
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Sealed account of agricultural labor, 2039 BCE: RTI Imaging Object
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Cuneiform Tablets, 2350 - 1788 BCE
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